Sr. Cloud Engineer; Cloud Strategy & Innovation Job McLean area,Virginia USA,IT/Tech

Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer (Cloud Strategy & Innovation)

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Cloud Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies to join our team.

As a Cloud Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.

Cloud Foundations is focused on delivering scalable, secure and flexible cloud infrastructure solutions. We are the bedrock for Capital One, supporting all of our applications and critical systems. We drive the standard patterns and capabilities for cloud infrastructure, delivering those patterns through automated, API-first solutions. Our goal is to provide fully managed infrastructure that can be stood up in real time, delivering on the needs of our customers now and in the future.

In this role, you will drive our cloud infrastructure strategy. This includes areas such as cloud connectivity, automating cloud landing zones, and overall cloud platform management. You will work with other senior leaders in the organization to define our strategy and partner closely with key stakeholders across the enterprise to execute that strategy.

What You’ll Do:

Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.
Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements
Lead the adoption and responsible use of emerging AI and automation capabilities to improve the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of cloud platforms and engineering workflows

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
At least 6 years of experience in cloud engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
12+ years of experience in coding with at least one of the following:
Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js
8+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
8+ years of experience in CI/CD orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation, Pulumi, Crossplane), and Automated Governance using Policy-as-Code DSLs (e.g. OPA)
One or more active certifications related to cloud infrastructure management or security
Experience in optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Serverless)
Experience designing and supporting cloud networking, security and identity integrations
Experience troubleshooting and supporting production cloud environments
Experience influencing technology strategy at the portfolio or business unit level
Experience managing multi-team engineering organizations or leading strategic technical programs spanning multiple domains
Experience defining and tracking engineering OKRs that align to business outcomes
Experience shaping organization design and talent strategy for scaling engineering capabilities
Experience with strategic and executive-level communication to influence technology decisions within the organization
Experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through…